Recollections
News from Eagle Bend's Past
25 Years Ago
October 29, 1997
Residents of the Eagle Valley School District (formerly Eagle Bend and Clarissa) will be asked to approve a $410,000 bond issue to replace the heating and water delivery systems in the elementary school in Clarissa. Superintendent Dale Svaren explained the district will pay 11 percent, or $70,054 of the district’s adjusted net tax capacity of $636,900 and 19 percent of the remaining $65,000. The state will pay $53,000 and the district will pay $82,000 a year, a 40-60 share. As if to emphasize the need for its replacement, a pipe running under the parking lot to the gym from the boiler room (in the old 1914 portion of the building) sprung a leak the past week. The miniature “Old Faithful” geyser spouted steam about four feet into the air. Luckily no one was in the vicinity when it blew out.
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Navy Seaman Bonnie J. Beach, daughter of Roger D. and Virginia M. Beach of Eagle Bend, is currently halfway through a five-month South American deployment aboard the ship USS Whidbey Island. Beach is one of more than 300 sailors and 400 Marines aboard the ship which departed its home port of Little Creek, Virginia as part of the U.S. force participating in Unitas. Twenty-five ships and a variety of aircraft from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, as military forces from Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Venezuela and the United Kingdom are participating in the annual exercise that has been held since 1959. Unitas is Latin for unity.
50 Years Ago
October 26, 1972
Halloween ghosts, clowns and witches will soon be threatening tricks and collecting teats on their annual spook parade. Be ready for them. Don’t spend hours making homemade goodies and snacks to put in their ransom sacks. Give them factory-wrapped and sealed treats. Parents tell the children to bring home all of their loot where they can inspect it for any unpleasant tricks among the “treats” and remove loose fruit, cookies, candy, and well-meant, germ-carrying homemade surprises.
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Mrs. E.H. Smith, District 10 president, and Mrs. Donn Harris, Eagle Bend Delegate, attended the golden anniversary State PTA Convention in Duluth on October 13 and 14.
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